a large part of the country's industrial and manufacturing units are small and medium enterprises, but these firms have not been able to play an important contribution to achieving the export development goals. given the importance of export promotion as the engine of the economy and low export share of smes, the purpose of this study is explanation the policy of export promotion for this ...

The USDA’s Market Access Program (formerly Market Promotion Program) recently underwent a major change to redirect all branded products export promotion funds to small domestic firms and cooperatives. The redirection responded to criticisms by the General Accounting Office of past allocations of branded products export promotion funds to large, experienced exporters. This study uses a firm-leve...

This research examines the relationship of Export Promotion Programs (EPPs), sponsored by a Portuguese Regional Association for Development on Trade and Industry, with firms’ export performance. To investigate this, two models were applied using panel data analyses that relate performance to variables such as participation in EPPs, age size firms. Data 198 firms sampling period 2010 2018 was dr...

The paper examines the impact of export promotion on aggregate unemployment. We findnd that increases in share Export Promotion Agencies' (EPAs) budgets total exports lead to small decreases This effect is amplifi ed when efforts are concentrated sectors which country has a comparative advantage. On other hand, when EPAs aim at reducing unemployment by focusing their with high levels ...

exports have direct effects on iran’s economic growth; therefore, a variety of state and private owned institutes promote iranian companies’ export activities via export promotion programs (epps). the main goal of these programs is to improve the export performance of iranian companies and to motivate export activities of those companies. to explore the effects of export promotion programs on e...

This paper presents a dynamic model of the export decision by a profit-maximizing firm. Using a panel of U.S. manufacturing plants, we test for the role of plant characteristics, spillovers from neighboring exporters, entry costs and government export promotion expenditures. Entry and exit in the export market by U.S. plants is substantial, past exporters are apt to reenter, and plants are like...